Information Systems: The State of the Field

Foreword—Gordon B. Davis.

Series Preface—Rudy Hirschheim.

Introduction—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.

Original Papers.

1 Scoping the Discipline of Information Systems—David Avison and Steve Elliot.

2 Desperately Seeking the ‘IT’ in IT Research: A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.

3 Still Desperately Seeking the IT Artifact—Ron Weber.

4 The Identity Crisis within the IS Discipline: Defining and Communicating the Discipline’s Core Properties—Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.

5 Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State of the Discipline—Rudy A. Hirschheim and Heinz K. Klein.

6 Change as Crisis or Growth? Toward a Trans-disciplinary View of Information Systems as a Field of Study: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud’s Call for Returning to the IT Artifact—Robert D. Galliers.

7 The Social Life of Information Systems Research: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud’s Call for Returning to the IT Artifact—Gerardine DeSanctis.

8 Identity, Legitimacy and the Dominant Research Paradigm: An Alternative Prescription for the IS Discipline—Daniel Robey.

9 Design Science in Information Systems Research—Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park and Sudha Ram.

10 Nothing at the Center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field—Kalle Lyytinen and John Leslie King.

11 Reach and Grasp—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.

Commentaries.

12 The Artifact Redux: Further Reflections on the ‘IT’ in IT Research—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.

13 Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Debate on the Core of the Information Systems Discipline—Ron Weber.

14 Further Reflections on the Identity Crisis—Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.

15 Further Reflections on the IS Discipline: Climbing the Tower of Babel—Heinz K. Klein and Rudy A. Hirschheim.

16 ‘Don’t Worry, be Happy . . . ’ A Post-Modernist Perspective on the Information Systems Domain—Robert D. Galliers.

17 Cleaning the Mirror: Desperately Seeking Identity in the Information Systems Field—Daniel Robey.

18 Designing Design Science—Salvatore T. March.

19 The Future of the IS Field: Drawing Directions from Multiple Maps—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.

Index.